This report is concerned with the issues at hand regarding the awarding of academic credit for work or life experience relevant to the field a student wishes to study. Four major recommendations are made within the report: (1) a committee should be set up to govern the accrediting of life and work experience, to determine the overall policy, and…

This publication is a compilation of descriptions of approximately 200 graduate reading programs. Each description covers a number of different facets of the program, such as program director, degrees available, number of students in the graduate program, career interests of students, names of members of the faculty, associated staff, and faculty…

Presented in this document are the results of a Task Force study in Florida that explored the feasibility of a baccalaureate degree program that can be completed in 3 academic years. The Task Force addressed itself to the issues surrounding time-shortened degrees: acceleration; locksteps; relevancy of educational objectives to individual and…

The author presents in question and answer format the findings of a survey of outdoor education degree programs offered in higher education. (MJB)

The article examines the foreign language requirement in college and its impact on universities and students with specific learning disabilities (SLD). Noted are SLD foreign language learning subtypes, factors affecting SLD students' language learning ability, college expectations and requirements, and ways universities are dealing with these…

A method for checking college students' completion of program and graduation requirements by computer is outlined. The procedure operates by having degree programs defined in tables and is simple enough to be achieved by junior program staff without the need for programmers and analysts. (MSE)

The University of Oregon has developed a coaching specialization program that allows students to train for prospective coaching assignments without obtaining a teaching certification. Background information on the status of coaching certification is offered. (DF)

Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago has started an interdisciplinary degree program called Education and Experience in Engineering.'' (PG)

Cheating can be stopped by removing the incentives for cheating such as grades and degree requirements. (HS)

Reviews current degree structures and suggests criteria that might be used to test innovative activity or structural reform. (HS)

New criteria for conferring degrees are proposed. (HS)

The question ofwhether degree requirements should be inflexibly enforced for foreign students is analyzed. (HS)

Describes a 1980 analysis of accredited undergraduate business schools to determine the amount of economics coursework they required. Some of the results showed that accredited schools are likely to require more economics than nonaccredited schools, and that recommendations made in two major studies regarding number and types of economics courses…

Salient aspects of practices associated with doctoral-level study in the late 1950s and the late 1970s are contrasted to convey the magnitude of some of the changes in program opportunities, degree requirements, student recruitment, student evaluation, and faculty competence. Implications for teachers contemplating doctoral study are discussed.…